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  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Philip M. Dixon is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields with a focus on the agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. The subfields of study in which they have contributed include plant science, agronomy and crop science, nature and landscape conservation, physiology, and statistics and probability.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including crop yield and soil fertility, physical activity and health, fish ecology and management studies, obesity, physical activity and diet, soil geostatistics and mapping, statistical methods and Bayesian inference, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Among recent scholarly outputs, notable papers include:

  • Lengthening of maize maturity time is not a widespread climate change adaptation strategy in the US Midwest, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Modeling perennial groundcover effects on annual maize grain crop growth with the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator, 2020, Agronomy Journal
  • Calibration of the Online Youth Activity Profile Assessment for School-Based Applications, 2021, Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
  • Do newer maize hybrids grow roots faster and deeper?, 2024, Crop Science
  • Breeding for high maize yields indirectly boosting root carbon in the US Corn Belt since the 1980s, 2025, Field Crops Research

Frequent publication venues include Crop Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Change Biology, Agronomy Journal, and Field Crops Research.

Philip M. Dixon has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Gregory J. Welk, Michael J. Weber, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Paul R. Hibbing, and Gabriella M. McLoughlin.

Philip M. Dixon was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2003, marking a notable achievement within their professional career.

Best Publications

  • VEGAN, a package of R functions for community ecology

    Philip Dixon

  • SIZE-SPECIFIC SENSITIVITY: APPLYING A NEW STRUCTURED POPULATION MODEL

    Michael R. Easterling;Stephen P. Ellner;Philip M. Dixon

  • Comprehensive analysis of cancer-associated somatic mutations in class I HLA genes

    Sachet A Shukla;Sachet A Shukla;Sachet A Shukla;Michael S Rooney;Michael S Rooney;Mohini Rajasagi;Grace Tiao

  • Bootstrapping the gini coefficient of inequality

    Philip M. Dixon;Jacob Weiner;Thomas Mitchell-Olds;Robert Woodley

  • A new method to measure spatial association for ecological count data.

    Joe N. Perry;Philip M. Dixon

  • Ecology. Global amphibian population declines.

    Ross A. Alford;Philip M. Dixon;Joseph H.K. Pechmann

  • Woody plant regeneration in four floodplain forests

    Robert H. Jones;Rebecca R. Sharitz;Philip M. Dixon;Debra S. Segal

  • EFFECTS OF PAST LAND USE ON SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF SOIL NUTRIENTS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FORESTS

    Jennifer M. Fraterrigo;Monica G. Turner;Scott M. Pearson;Philip M. Dixon

  • Are many little hammers effective? Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) population dynamics in two- and four-year crop rotation systems

    Paula R. Westerman;Matt Liebman;Fabián D. Menalled;Andrew H. Heggenstaller

  • Analysis of Combined Experiments Revisited

    Kenneth J. Moore;Philip M. Dixon

  • Evolution of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus during Sequential Passages in Pigs

    C. C. Chang;Kyoung-Jin Yoon;Jeffrey J. Zimmerman;Karen M. Harmon

  • Small-scale environmental heterogeneity and the analysis of species distributions along gradients

    Michael W. Palmer;Philip M. Dixon

  • Crop Species Diversity Affects Productivity and Weed Suppression in Perennial Polycultures under Two Management Strategies

    Valentín D. Picasso;E. Charles Brummer;E. Charles Brummer;Matt Liebman;Philip M. Dixon

  • The Use of Coverboards in Estimating Patterns of Reptile and Amphibian Biodiversity

    Bruce W. Grant;Anton D. Tucker;Jeffrey E. Lovich;Anthony M. Mills

  • Comparison of Consumer and Research Monitors under Semistructured Settings.

    Yang Bai;Gregory J. Welk;Yoon Ho Nam;Joey A. Lee

  • Competitive Abilities of Sparse Grass Species: Means of Persistence or Cause of Abundance

    Deborah Rabinowitz;Jody K. Rapp;Philip M. Dixon

  • ESTIMATING MEAN AND VARIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES WITH BELOW DETECTION LIMIT OBSERVATIONS

    Michael C. Newman;Philip M. Dixon;Brian B. Looney;John E. Pinder

  • Agronomic and Economic Performance Characteristics of Conventional and Low-External-Input Cropping Systems in the Central Corn Belt

    Matthew Z. Liebman;Lance R. Gibson;David N. Sundberg;Andrew Howard Heggenstaller

  • Testing spatial segregation using a nearest-neighbor contingency table

    Philip Dixon

  • DETECTING TRENDS IN SPECIES COMPOSITION

    Thomas E. Philippi;Philip M. Dixon;Barbara E. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Matt Liebman
Matt Liebman Iowa State University
Basil J. Nikolau
Basil J. Nikolau Iowa State University
David L. Jordan
David L. Jordan North Carolina State University
David R. Shaw
David R. Shaw Royal Adelaide Hospital
Bryan G. Young
Bryan G. Young Purdue University West Lafayette
Kenneth J. Moore
Kenneth J. Moore Iowa State University
Adam S. Davis
Adam S. Davis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eve Syrkin Wurtele
Eve Syrkin Wurtele Iowa State University
Stephen C. Weller
Stephen C. Weller Purdue University West Lafayette
Mark L. Gleason
Mark L. Gleason Iowa State University

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